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Literature

Poetry

Book Reviews

February 19, 2019

black and white portrait of Henry Worsley in winter gear

Arts & Culture

Exploring Endurance

February 19, 2019

3 portraits who are experts on attraction

University News

Why We’re Attracted to the People We’re Attracted To

February 7, 2019

Raakhee Mirchandani holds her book Super Satya Saves the Day

Arts & Culture

A Fictional Superhero Inspired by a Real-Life Four-Year-Old

January 15, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Literature

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

Video still from the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special showing Santa Claus talking to Rudolph with his blinking red nose.

History

POV: Rudolph the Sad, Bullied, Verbally Abused Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 7, 2018

Breaking Bad character Walter White sits in a recliner with his family wife Skylar and son Walt Jr. in the background.

Film & TV

Breaking Bad Director Gives CAS Class the Inside Dope

November 30, 2018

CAS Lecturer + author Sigrid Nunez

Arts & Culture

Sigrid Nunez Up For Top Literature Honor

November 14, 2018

a portrait of Marilyn Chin

Creative Writing

Marilyn Chin Headlines Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading

October 25, 2018

A black and white portrait of George Sanders

Creative Writing

Lincoln in the Bardo Author George Saunders Reads at BU Tonight

October 9, 2018

Image of the painting HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic by John Wilson Carmichael

Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Arts & Culture

Mrs. Ahab Meets the Whale

April 19, 2018

Arts & Culture

Lyric Poets Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

April 17, 2018

Arts on Campus

A Conversation with Zadie Smith

March 15, 2018

The Roman Colosseum at Dawn.

Creative Writing

The Allure of the Eternal City

March 14, 2018

CGS Dean Natalie McKnight

Faculty

Office Artifacts: Natalie McKnight

December 14, 2017

STH’s Shelly Rambo offers a theological perspective on trauma, while he colleagues’ tackle its clinical and literary aspects.

Classes

How Many Profs Does It Take to Teach Trauma?

November 15, 2017

Poets Mark Doty and Tomas Unger

Arts & Culture

Poet Mark Doty Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading Headliner

October 26, 2017

Robert Hudson, Librarian at Boston University

University News

Robert Hudson to Retire as University Librarian

October 19, 2017

Ten Influential Poets throughout the centuries

Poetry

Favorite Poem Project to Celebrate 20th Anniversary

September 11, 2017

Favorite Poem Project to Celebrate 20th Anniversary